JetBrains Strikes Python Developers with PyCharm 1.0 IDE

JetBrains delivers a new integrated development environment for Python, Django and Google App Engine developers, known as PyCharm 1.0.

JetBrains has delivered a new language-specific integrated development environment for Python and Django developers, known as PyCharm 1.0.

JetBrains, the maker of productivity-enhancing development tools such as IntelliJ IDEA,
adds a new language-specific IDE to its family of lightweight
language-specific IDEs that JetBrains started delivering in 2008 with RubyMine, a Ruby on Rails IDE. Other installments include PhpStorm and WebStorm IDEs for PHP, HTML and JavaScript developers, respectively.

PyCharm is aimed directly at Python, Django and Google App Engine
developers. Django is an open source web application framework, written
in Python, which follows the model-view-controller architectural
pattern.

"Personally, Python has been my favorite
language for quite a while now. That's why I'm especially excited about
sharing this powerful tool with other 'Pythonistas' around the world,"
said Dmitry Jemerov, JetBrains' PyCharm project lead, in a statement.
"I'm certain that PyCharm will make their Python/Django development a
real pleasure. Built on the IntelliJ platform, PyCharm naturally
inherits its outstanding JavaScript, HTML and CSS editing features that
all web developers will appreciate. I daresay that with all these
capabilities, PyCharm will become a leading Python IDE even before its
next major release."

JetBrains said PyCharm features a smart code editor that understands the specifics of Python and provides productivity

Boosters including: automatic code formatting,
code completion, refactorings, auto-import, one-click code navigation,
and more. Moreover, with the addition of advanced code analysis
routines as a foundation, these features make PyCharm a useful tool for
of both professional Python developers and those who are just starting
out with the technology, the company said.

And because PyCharm is built on the IntelliJ
platform, it inherits that product's support for JavaScript, HTML and
CSS editing, among other features that web developers will benefit
from. With these capabilities, PyCharm is expected to become a leading
Python IDE even before its next major release, JetBrains said in a
press release on PyCharm.

Meanwhile, PyCharm 1.0 also provides the following key features:

Advanced support for Django development -
including smart code completion, inspections, refactorings and specific
code navigation.

Integrated Python Debugger and graphical unit test runner.

Support for the modern Python development toolchain, including virtualenv and buildout.

Version Control Systems integration - unified UI for most popular VCS such as Mercurial, Git, SVN, Perforce and CVS.

Google App Engine support - allows running
and deploying your applications to the App Engine server, while
ensuring that the code meets the requirements of the sandbox
environment.

REPL and Django consoles - with many
advantages over the standard ones: on-the-fly syntax check with
inspections; braces and quotes matching and pairs autoinsertion; and
code completion.

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